Web Scraping with Puppeteer: Pagination and CSV Export

Extracting data from the web does not have to be a manual, tedious chore. With the right automation tools, you can gather structured information from complex websites in seconds. This text-based course guides you through the fundamentals of web scraping using Puppeteer, a powerful library for Node.js. You will transition from understanding basic web selectors to building a reliable script that navigates multi-page websites, extracts targeted text, and saves the structured results into clean CSV files. What you'll learn: - Understand the core concepts of the Document Object Model (DOM) and CSS selectors - Configure Puppeteer in headless mode with modern performance and security settings - Navigate multi-page structures using robust pagination logic - Extract text and attributes safely using modern Puppeteer locator APIs - Format and export scraped data into standardized CSV files for analysis - Implement basic error handling to build resilient scraping scripts. You will start with foundational concepts of web structure and Puppeteer setup before moving step-by-step through page navigation, data extraction, and file writing. The course concludes with practical, written exercises designed to reinforce your script-building skills. This course is designed for beginners with a basic understanding of JavaScript who want to learn web scraping. No prior scraping experience is required. Start reading today to build your first automated data extraction pipeline.